On Mon, Feb 23, 2009, Jason Rutherglen wrote about "Re: IndexWriter.rollback() 
logic":
> Howdy An,
> 
> Commit means the changes are committed, there's no rollback at that point.
> 
> Also in the futuer please post your questions to java-dev@lucene.apache.org

Actually, An does make a good point that need to be corrected (by developers,
not by users ;-)) - the javadoc is a bit misleading. rollback's javadoc says

  Close the IndexWriter without committing any of the changes that have
  occurred since it was opened. This removes any temporary files that had
  been created, after which the state of the index will be the same as it
  was when this writer was first opened. 

But, this isn't exactly true - it doesn't always revert to the state of the
open(), but rather to the last commit() if such was done. For most intents
and purposes (including this one), commit() is equivalent to a close()
followed by a new open(), but a person reading this javadoc wouldn't know that.

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